PhD candidate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation section of the Amsterdam Business School (ABS) is looking for a PhD candidate for a research project about the impact of …

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Arbeidsvoorwaarden

Standplaats:

Spui, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Dienstverband:

Tijdelijk contract / Tijdelijke opdracht

Uren per week:

38 uur

Salarisindicatie:

€ 2222 - € 2840 per maand

Opleidingsniveau:

WO

Functieomschrijving

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation section of the Amsterdam Business School (ABS) is looking for a PhD candidate for a research project about the impact of university-based incubation activities on the creation, growth, and performance of new startups and spinoffs as well their founders.

The main aim of this project is to study early investment in biotech entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the signals of quality the entrepreneur and the venture can send and especially on the effects of how the entrepreneur or venture are categorized, in terms of industry, technology, goal of the product etc. - or categorize themselves.

The research will combine insights from management science, especially entrepreneurship and innovation, with those from categorisation theory, both in management science and in sociology, and apply a broad range of quantitative techniques, from network analysis to machine learning (esp. to analyse texts and images).

This PhD project is part of the recently approved ORGANIVIR project, which is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network within the EU Horizon 2020 program.

The overall project is a collaboration between researchers from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland and Denmark. The lead of the overall project is with the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, most of these researchers are connected to (bio)medical departments who study innovative techniques and applications related to artificial organs; this subproject is the only one in management science.

The supervisors of this project will be Prof. Nachoem Wijnberg and Dr Balazs Szatmari.

Functie-eisen

According to EU rules for the Marie Curie programmes, the candidate needs to be a citizen of a EU country, but not of the Netherlands. Also, the candidate should not have been living in the Netherlands for more than a short period prior to the start of this project.

Besides the candidate should have:

a Master’s degree in the area of management science, econometrics, economics, sociology, computer science, or a related discipline - we can also consider candidates with a master in medicine if they can show that they have a serious interest and background, having followed relevant courses and/or minors, in management science too;

the ability to work independently and to be proactive in developing the research project, sometimes in collaboration with colleagues from other countries and faculties;

mastery of both written and spoken English.

Conditions

According to EU rules for the Marie Curie programmes, the candidate needs to be a citizen of a EU country, but not of the Netherlands. Also, the candidate should not have been living in the Netherlands for more than a short period prior to the start of this project.

Besides the candidate should have:

a Master’s degree in the area of management science, econometrics, economics, sociology, computer science, or a related discipline - we can also consider candidates with a master in medicine if they can show that they have a serious interest and background, having followed relevant courses and/or minors, in management science too;

Additional information

You may submit your letter of application accompanied by a curriculum vitae to this link. In addition, you should include a copy of your Master's thesis. If you are currently studying for a Master's degree ou should include a short description of your Master thesis project (max. 2 pages) and a copy of your Bachelor's thesis before 17 July 2018 via the link below. Please include job reference number 18-337.